Platform Engineer (Cloud & DevOps)
Location: Remote, TX
Duration: Start Date: 6 months
The resource will work mostly overnight, after the customer closes that is 11:00 p.m. or 12:00 a.m. The work will probably be 1:00 a.m. to 7 AM It will be weekdays mostly
Job Responsibilities
• Build & Automate Infrastructure: Implement scalable, reliable infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible and other IaC tools.
• CI/CD Pipeline Development: Create and support CI/CD pipelines that enable fast, safe deployments across environments.
• Private Cloud Operations: Monitor system health, troubleshoot issues, and drive improvements in availability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Observability & Monitoring: Implement monitoring solutions using tools (e.g., LogicMonitor, CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus) to support proactive incident response.
• Security & Compliance: Apply security best practices and ensure compliance with internal standards around high availability and disaster recovery.
• Collaboration: Work closely with delivery and application teams to align infrastructure solutions with product needs and development workflows.
• Knowledge Sharing: Contribute to team growth by sharing best practices, code reviews, and documentation.
• Continuous Improvement: Self-direct through day-to-day functional processes with an eye towards evolution and innovation.
• Maintain high awareness of quality and performance, addressing failures as necessary, with a priority focus on live production environments.
• Maintenance Expectations: Participate in overnight deployments, assist during maintenance window activities.
Critical Skills & Experience Requirements
• Experience: 3+ years in VMware infrastructure, Windows and Linux environments with an understanding of Hyperconverged infrastructure.
• Experience: 3+ years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering roles, including experience with production VMware, Aws or Azure environments.
• Experience: 1+ years in Meraki SDWAN infrastructure with an understanding of networking infrastructure.
• Cloud & IaC Expertise: Hands-on experience with Terraform or Ansible, AWS CDK, or similar tools.
• CI/CD & Automation: Familiarity with modern CI/CD workflows and scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python or Bash.
• Kubernetes Experience: Experience deploying and managing containerized applications in Kubernetes, Docker, Helm or ECS.
• Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Practical experience with observability tools (e.g., LogicMonitor, CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus) and using metrics to improve system reliability.
• Security Focus: Solid grasp of cloud security principles, with experience enforcing secure access and infrastructure policies.
• Team Mindset: Clear communicator with a collaborative approach to problem-solving and cross-functional work.
• Personal Skills: Problem solving and analytical thinking, time management, developed written and verbal communication, mentoring.
• Relevant Certifications: VMware, Microsoft, AWS, Azure are preferred. Terraform, Linux, Lego Master Builder are accepted.
• This is a hybrid role based out of Dallas Texas and candidate must be able to work in US without sponsorship.
• Customer is coming off VxRail and moving to R series servers, and we need a resource who can help the customer with that